Interim Tangled Wires_022
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_022
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The image shows an open journal with handwritten text on the right page and a photograph on the left. The photograph depicts two individuals standing in a room, with a table in front of them holding a cake and a bouquet of flowers. The journal page is adorned with small decorative elements, including what appears to be a small stack of paper or fabric at the top right corner. The handwriting is in cursive and appears to be a personal reflection.
- Identifier
- 003_070620-081620_interim_tangled_wires
- Dates Completed
- July 6, 2020 - August 16, 2020
- Keywords
- Tangled wires; Woodpecker; Trees; Beauty; Destruction of nature; Parent-child responsibilities; Let Me Walk in Beauty; Lakota Sioux; Chief Yellow Lark; Public Parks; Trust for Public Land; Creative process; Flowers; Loss; Black veil collage; Covid-19; Candy Dickenson Becher; Drop metaphor; Gretchen Dykstra; Double mastectomy; Dream of parents; Breast cancer; God laughs at plans; 29 Pieces planning; Cardinals; Cardinal collages; Sibyl Dana Reynolds; Institutional breakdowns; BLM; BLM collage; Parental meditations; Potatoes and pride; Life stages; Gretchen’s kimono; Friendships; Past and present; Neighbor tree dispute; Manifest or dissolve; Contagious grace; Commodification of beauty
- Transcription
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Left Page:
July 1, 1987
Mom's 80th Birthday
It was at the party room where Lu lived. I made an angel food and a flag cake, which everyone was making that year. Dad - you shyly asked if you could give Mom the courage to order.
Right Page:
At 68, I still carry the burden of guilt. Would confusion lift?
1. As a child, I stole money from a wallet I found on the ground a block away from home. What did I do with the wallet? I don't remember.
2. I carry the burden of guilt for that.
3. I resented my grandmother, her constant illness, the source of embarrassment created because her infirmities. - Rights
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